Leadership Quote by Silvan Shalom

The line is built like a barricade: short, absolute, and designed to make alternatives sound irresponsible. Shalom stacks synonyms - "safety" and "security" - not for nuance, but for emphasis, creating a moral fog in which any risk, however small, becomes intolerable. The repetition of "We're not going to" performs resolve more than it argues policy. It signals that the speaker is in control, that the state is not negotiating from weakness, and that debate itself can be framed as a threat.

"Those extremists" is doing heavy work. It's a convenient category that collapses distinctions among militants, political opponents, and ordinary people who might be swept up by restrictions. The term is elastic enough to justify broad measures while keeping the target safely dehumanized and vague. Then comes the rhetorical masterstroke: "the privilege to come so freely". Movement isn't treated as a right or even a normal condition; it's reframed as a gift the state can withdraw. That's a subtle but consequential shift in the moral accounting, because it makes restriction feel like prudence rather than punishment.

The final clause - "kill us one day after another" - leans into a rolling, cumulative dread. It's less a description of a particular incident than an invitation to inhabit an atmosphere of perpetual emergency. In that context, harsh border controls, closures, or limits on entry become pre-sold as self-defense, and anyone questioning them risks being cast as prioritizing procedure over survival.